Job Description
Location: UK or Greece, remote (GMT Overlap)
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: Negotiable
Working for Krotos
Krotos designs and distributes audio software sound effects libraries which are used by top film, television, and game sound professionals worldwide. Our mission is to change the way people design and perform sound. We massively speed up and revolutionise our customers’ workflows so they can make their projects sound awesome!
The role
We are looking for a skilled and experienced Full Stack Developer to produce scalable software solutions. You’ll be part of a cross-functional team that’s responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment. Your instinct is to work autonomously and iteratively to solve problems. Your experience will enable you to influence the team and product direction, present great ideas, design plans and deliver on these in line with our business objectives.
Key objectives
- Own and maintain the full web stack
- Bring experience and expertise in both frontend and backend development
- Maintain high performance and website availability
Responsibilities
- Build upon our WordPress/WooCommerce powered backend
- Expand and maintain our custom Wordpress plugins and themes
- Collaborate with the design team to implement new features and designs
- Troubleshoot issues and bugs in existing codebase
- Create and manage databases and API integrations
- Learn and expand our emerging Django, React, and Svelte solutions
- Write technical documentation
- Work with the audio engineering department to improve software
- Stay up-to-date with the latest web development trends and technologies
- Work with Agile methodology, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives
Skills and experience
Essential:
- Strong knowledge of PHP, WordPress and WooCommerce
- Experience with at least one PHP MVC framework e.g. Laravel, Symfony
- Experience with MySQL
- Use of the Composer package manager
- Wordpress custom plugin development
- Write effective and RESTful APIs
- Proficiency with Git
- Appreciation for clean and well documented code
Desirable:
- Experience working as part of an Agile or Scrum team
- Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as React and Svelte
- Familiarity with preprocessors and bundlers such as Webpack
- Experience with Python
- Understanding of continuous delivery process and technologies e.g. Docker, Jenkins
- Experience with a Test driven approach, unit testing
- Familiarity with Elasticsearch
- Interest in sound and audio production
Benefits
- Remote working with flexible start and finish times.
- 30 days paid holidays. You can take public holidays or bank and use them as you choose.
- High spec laptop and home-office essentials.
- Quarterly team and annual company in-person events.
- Sick pay.
Remote work is supported but applicants are required to be based in and have the right to work in either the UK or Greece.
How to apply
Please apply through the Krotos careers website:
www.krotosaudio.com/careers
If you feel like you are the perfect candidate and could make a significant contribution to Krotos, please send a CV and cover letter, in PDF format, stating what you can contribute towards Krotos after joining us.
Please note, all offers are subject to eligibility to work in the UK or Greece and satisfactory references.
At Krotos, we recognise the value of a diverse team, and we are committed to and encourage applications from people with varied experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds. Reasonable adjustments are available to support candidates through the application and interview process.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: From £1.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Flexitime
- Sick pay
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: Remote
Reference ID: PHP022023